Retaining knowledge

We have forgotten how to survive outside the machine. Humanity cannot afford to lose that knowledge. We have built a huge wealth of knowledge and it is crucial that it is preserved, currently it is stored in hyperspace. When the wars break out hyperspace will be the first strike. There were 8 million botnet connections in the last 14 days and that is nothing unusual. Just as there are seed banks there needs to be offline knowledge banks. DIY tutorials, university courses in Electronics, Agriculture, Food, Engineering you name it.

The trouble is with long term storage, assuming no internet.

Hard drives will eventually wear out.

Tape is probably good for 40-50 years if stored correctly, but tape drives are getting more difficult to source, particularly for parts.

Punched cards would survive long term storage, but are impractical and unavailable.

That really only leaves printed books, and they are disappearing fast.

If I was going to despair about any one point it would be this one. If we go into thermogeddon and have not adequately provided Thorium nuclear power solutions in time, then we can assume that the communications system will break down due to lack of maintenance. Once that happens, the dominoes will fall and eventually all web-based knowledge will be lost.

It is therefore of fundamental importance that critical systems for a remote community do not overly rely on technology. Sooner or later that technology will fail and replacement parts could be non-existent. I say could be, because it is unlikely that governments will be allowed to stand by while their citizens fry. They will be forced to supply power at whatever cost.

But information is critical and that is where cd3wd archives come in. A collection of ~200GB of survival information. Torrents are here: www.cd3wd.com/download/index.htm